A Tamil schoolteacher was subjected to eight hours of interrogation by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) in Paranthan, as the security forces continued to crackdown on Tamil activists.

Innasimuttu Sathiyaseelan’s alleged "offence" was the creation of a prop for a school sports meet, which included an entrance arch resembling a Thuyilam Illam, or LTTE cemetery, the shape of Tamil Eelam. 

Hundreds of Tamil activists, youth, and diaspora members gathered outside the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Monday, demanding international justice for the Tamil genocide and the liberation of occupied Tamil Eelam.

The protest coincided with Sri Lanka's discussion at the UNHRC’s 58th session, where the island’s human rights record and lack of accountability were under review.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced that his government will repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and replace it with a new legal framework, raising concerns that the infamously draconian law may simply be rebranded rather than abolished.